My Life in a few words or less…

What’s in a name

Words made famous by Romeo. Would you be the same person you are today if you had a different name? Ever wished for a different name? Does the name make the person, or the person grow in to their name? SO many questions. Clearly hubby and I have not settled on a name for Little Mac yet. With Big Mac, we had a short list of 5 or so names, but we had secretly committed early on. Just didn’t make any announcements until he was actually born. For some reason I find it kind of weird to refer to this thing growing inside of me with a name. Just using a nick name or “he” is weird enough.

But this time… it is definitely different. We still have our one girl name (just in case), but had some serious difficulty trying to come up with a boy name. The difficulty actually came in trying to narrow it down. We finally got our list down to the Top 10. This may seem like a lot, but was no small feat let me tell you. Our list started at 40+ names. :S Pretty ridiculous. But in true fashion, hubby and I created a spreadsheet with all possible names, nick names, middle names, initials and combinations. We did not take this task lightly.

Naming a kid is friggin stressful. That is their name. For. Life. There are all these stories of kids with weird names, and I don’t want my kid becoming one of those stories. Plus, everyone wants to be different, make sure that their kid is unique. You definitely don’t want your kid being 1 of 15 other of the same named kid. This results in random spellings and combinations of names to make new names. These can be quite delightful… but then you hear about “La-a”, which is supposed to be pronounced “La-dash-ah”. Really? I feel like this is an urban naming legend.

In our relentless internet searching for names, I found this website, Baby Name Wizard which has an incredible “Voyager” that shows you the rise and fall of name popularity. Obviously this is legit. I run all our names through here… quite obsessively.

So who knows what Little Mac is going to be called. We have about 17 days to figure it out. Any suggestions?